[melony]

The counter argument is that you don't have to babysit any of those services. AWS/some other PaaS will handle everything for pennies. Unless you are working in a low cost of labor country, developer time is going to be more expensive than anything else. It will take very large scale/growth for infrastructure fees to exceed the total compensation of a decent US staff engineer or a site reliability engineering team.

[fomine3]

A problem is that "penny" isn't actually penny for hobby or very small internal in-corp project.